Sentencing Day For Baby Shacks

Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio, the former Patriarca boss who was schooled in the life at the knee of the crime family’s namesake Raymond L.S. Patriarca, will be sentenced today for his role in shaking down jiggle joints in Providence, RI as reported by Tim White.  Pursuant to a plea agreement with federal prosecutors the 84-year-old faces between 63 and 78 months with credit for the time served since his arrest in January 2011.
 

 
Several others also have pled guilty in the case, and Anthony DiNunzio, the reputed current boss of the Patriarca family, was charged last month pursuant to a superseding indictment for his alleged role in the strip club extortion racket.

While some naively contend the case is the final nail in the coffin of the New England Mafia such predictions have been gratuitously made with each mob bust over the decades, and somehow the good fellas always manage to arise from their buried ashes.

Further reading that may be of interest:

Reports On The Death Of The Mafia May Be Greatly Exaggerated

Update:

Baby Shacks was sentenced to 66 months — or 5 1/2 years — with credit for the 16 months already served as reported by Tim White for WPRI:  “in court, his defense attorney Joseph Balliro warned any prison stay for a man of his age could be a ‘death sentence.’”